“A Tribute to Lorenzo Lotto” at Academy Galleries

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From November 24th 2011 to February 26th 2012 Academy Galleries The exhibition “A Tribute to Lorenzo Lotto. Paintings from the Hermitage at the Academy Galleries” was opened in November 24th 2011 in Venice. It was made possible by the exceptional loan granted by the Museum of St. Petersburg to the Venetian galleries of two paintings rarely - if ever – seen before in Italy, namely: "the Portrait of Spouses" and the "Madonna delle Grazie". It is an exceptional event, a small solo exhibition which will remain open only until February 26th 2012, whose organizers have been able to make the most of the work of two of the most important galleries in the world. It is an exhibition of research, with the limits of spectacularity that this often involves, but also with the results and innovations that emerge from the activity of research, restoration and presentation of new works. An exhibition of research, as we said, that focuses around specific moments in Lotto’s career or on distinctive themes. The two Russian paintings belong to very different but somehow mysteriously symmetrical periods of the painter's career: the last years of his happy period in Bergamo, the most serene in Lotto’s life, on the eve of his return to Venice, and the last years of his stay in Venice just before leaving the lagoon city for Treviso, where he would find himself “alone, without faithful government and very troubled in his mind”. Therefore, the exhibition offers a rich and composite path that puts the two works in dialogue with other paintings by Lotto from European museums and from the collection of the Academia Galleries. The path of the present exhibition, curated by Matteo Ceriana, also includes contemporary paintings and sculptures derived from works of the Venetian master and documents that help tracing out his historical and artistic context.PB Info and booking: phone (39) 041 5200345, www.gallerieaccademia.org Ticket: full price € 11.00, reduced € 9.00